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Best way to organize your music?
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| Ariah |
Hey folks, I'm curious about how you guys organize your music collection?
Personally I just throw everything EDM related in one folder and everything else in another. Now I don't even have that big a collection, and it's still a hassle to browse music like that. So I'm looking forward to making my collection more structured ;) |
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| SYSTEM-J |
| MP3-wise, I just have a big list of tracks on my hard-drive, unless a certain artist builds up enough tracks, when they get their own folder. But most of my music is physical, and that simply goes alphabetically (and then chronologically within artist). |
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| distant |
Four, combined. I have folders for:
1. Label (only for large labels which I have at least 5-10 releases from)
2. Artist (same here, minimum of about 5-10 releases)
3. Genre (including descriptions like "atmospheric techno", "warehouse techno" etc)
4. Year
Considering I have about 40 000 mp3s, I'd get terribly confused otherwise. This works perfectly for me, since it lets me easily organize that which I have a lot from. |
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| Inconspicuous |
| quote: | Originally posted by Ariah
Hey folks, I'm curious about how you guys organize your music collection?
Personally I just throw everything EDM related in one folder and everything else in another. Now I don't even have that big a collection, and it's still a hassle to browse music like that. So I'm looking forward to making my collection more structured ;) |
I seperate it into a few main folders for types of music--IDM, a few different genres of EDM, rock(ish), then one for assorted stuff/humorous/one-time downloads, then another for mixes.
The IDM & assorted ones I just go with artist folders, then album folders.
The Mixes one, I have seperated into recordings, then another for releases.
In recordings, I have folders for recurring names, one for TAs, then the rest unorganized (I need to fix that...probably go by date).
For releases, it's all artist, then album.
For the EDM tracks, I go by month...so, a track I download today might look something like
F:/Music/EDM/Tech-House/January 07/blahblahblah.mp3
If I wound up buying the whole release, I'll put that folder in the appropriate month.
I like having the folders by month, 'cuz it winds up sorting itself into trends more efficiently than other ways I've tried.
It's a pain in the ass to sort out at first, but once it's set, it makes life 1000% easier.
EDIT: I lose at explanations. |
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| SYSTEM-J |
| quote: | Originally posted by distant
Four, combined. I have folders for:
1. Label (only for large labels which I have at least 5-10 releases from)
2. Artist (same here, minimum of about 5-10 releases)
3. Genre (including descriptions like "atmospheric techno", "warehouse techno" etc)
4. Year
Considering I have about 40 000 mp3s, I'd get terribly confused otherwise. This works perfectly for me, since it lets me easily organize that which I have a lot from. |
My, what a busy pirate you've been. |
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| RapidFire |
i use itunes so what I do is I put each genre as an "album" so I have;
Alternative (basically anything rock related)
Hip Hop
Dance (house and trance and their subgenres)
Electronic (anything apart from that including dnb, big beat, breaks etc)
Downtempo (ambient, chill, new age, whatever)
Serbian (:p)
and the rest of my actual albums. i still have a load of tracks i havent grouped (mostly stuff from the 80s) that i need to figure out how to break down into a broad genre |
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| distant |
| quote: | Originally posted by SYSTEM-J
My, what a busy pirate you've been. |
Oh, it's all legal... netlabel... stuff...
Ok I know I'm not getting away with that one. :o |
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| Ariah |
At the moment I'm thinking about breaking the entire collection into folders with the appropriate years. My god what a job that's gonna be. Back and forth between Discogs and the window manager.... But something has to be done, can't stand the way it is now -.-
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distant, your system made me wonder: Do you have 4 copies of each file? One for each "system"? |
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| SYSTEM-J |
| One of the many advantages of buying your music is that it tells you the year it was made. |
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| distant |
| quote: | Originally posted by Ariah
distant, your system made me wonder: Do you have 4 copies of each file? One for each "system"? |
No no, say if a vinyl was released on Superstition (label), that means I just put it in the Superstition folder since I have about 50 other Superstition releases, and I like to keep them together. I don't ALSO put it in the trance folder, even if it is trance.
This system might be confusing to some, but I remember tracks by what label they were released on. If the track isn't on a big label, I sort it by artist. If the artist isn't well known enough, then I finally sort it by genre. |
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| ballmouse |
| quote: | Originally posted by SYSTEM-J
One of the many advantages of buying your music is that it tells you the year it was made. |
Sometimes the tracks are not labeled with the appropriate year they were made. Instead, many are labeled by mp3/wav release date or later dates (because it was a re-release). |
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| Ariah |
| quote: | | One of the many advantages of buying your music is that it tells you the year it was made. |
That's a cheap shot, you don't know if I pay for my music or not. But since you're obviously interested, I can inform you that for instance, I've paid for every single edm cd I own except 2, and I've gotten a fair share of singles through audiojelly and beatport, but that doesn't mean I know which year they were released |
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